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Example sentences for: explodes

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But SNL is incomplete without at least one sketch in which someone's car explodes or head gets blown off.
Chinese New Year begins with a family dinner, and explodes with red banners and lion-dragon dances in the streets of Chinatown.
An article explodes the fallacy of safe sex.
But like any idea, it gets simplistic when carried too far, and late in Boogie Nights it explodes into cheap melodrama.
The radioactive fuel is safely encased, and will not pollute the atmosphere if the spacecraft explodes.